Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes) When I got this error message during install it mean the hard drive had a bad spot on it. This had nothing to do with the hd geometry used. Bet your hd is udma 33. Think this is a bug in fbsd since 4.11 where this problem did not occur. I think since 5.x the udma 33 ata driver does not handle the bad track pointer to the reassigned track. Or all the hd alt tracks have been used up all ready.
What I did was to allocate an very small unused partition that included that area and then allocated the remainder of the hd to the slice I installed fbsd in. My suggestion is this is first sign your hd is going bad, replace now, and backup your data to other hd. good luck. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Murphy Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:28 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry. Thanks Lila, your success encouraged me to try and you were quite right that "your win partition is pretty safe with freebsd fdisk." Unfortunately the install failed saying: Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes) And loads of errors like the following were shown on the Alt F2 screen: /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped 723757 bytes of junk /stand/cpio: : No such file or directory /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped 4096 bytes of junk /stand/cpio: : No such file or directory [...] acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x03 error=0 I tried leaving the partitions (within the ad0s2 slice) as they were first. Then I tried 'Auto defaults for all' and lastly some partition sizes of my own. I even tried installing 5.3 which only managed to write -1 bytes. Which is odd because it must have worked before. Presumably I would need to change the drive geometry in fdisk to the figures which the BIOS indicates. Any one know the implications of doing so for the non bsd slices? Thanks again. -- John. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
